Big space mirrors could bring Earth on-demand light — and upend our night sky
A space satellite that would offer light on demand has astronomers asking: Who controls the night sky?
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Nepal’s deadly debris flow points to risks in other high mountain regions
As human-caused climate warming destabilizes high mountain regions, the threat of rock-ice avalanches and other glacial hazards grows.
A space shark, ‘royal’ auroras and a ‘Venusian pearl’: See the winners of the 2026 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest
A picture of a distant, shark-shaped cloud of gas in space has earned the top prize in a Royal Observatory Greenwich contest for amateur space
Scientists identify rare genetic mutation that dramatically raises risk of lung cancer in nonsmokers
Scientists have identified an inherited genetic mutation that greatly increases the risk of lung cancer, even in people who have never smoked. The mutation involves
This million-year-old ‘baby planet’ is the youngest world scientists have ever discovered
A “baby” exoplanet, discovered emerging from its cosmic cocoon around a nearby star, is the youngest alien world ever seen, a new study reveals. The
Was there a ‘before’ the Big Bang? Jim Al-Khalili on the mind-bogglingness of time
Time keeps getting away from us. It has a fraught relationship with our subjective experience — sometimes slowing down or dragging on; and at other
Scientists shrank mice’s brains and replaced the missing tissue with human ‘organoids’
In a new study, scientists reared lab mice that were missing sections of their brains and then replaced the missing tissue with human cells. The
‘It is extremely rare to witness’: Scientists record humpback whale mom grieving her stillborn calf in first-of-its-kind footage
In an extraordinary first-of-its-kind video, researchers have documented a humpback whale mom grieving her stillborn calf. The footage was recorded off the coast of southeastern
Alzheimer’s damage may begin outside the brain
Removing a type of immune cell from lymph nodes in mice reduced brain inflammation and cell damage in a model of Alzheimer’s-like disease.
Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau
Anak Krakatau erupts ash and volcanic gases in this image acquired with the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8 on Sept. 5, 2026.
Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders.
Around 700 million years ago, a group of organisms resembling little more than glowing, gelatinous blobs split off from the rest of the animals, forming
1,700-year-old fragment of the ‘Odyssey’ discovered between pages of Dutch library book
A researcher was perusing a collection of old Egyptian texts in a Dutch library when he stumbled upon a torn piece of parchment containing a
Scientists finally figured out the temperature of T. rex’s blood — and it was as hot as ours
Tyrannosaurus rex was a hottie with a body temperature similar to our own, according to a new analysis of their teeth. The finding supports the
New trick could reveal text on 2,000-year-old scrolls charred by eruption of Mount Vesuvius
The long-lost words of ancient philosophers may finally be revealed nearly 2,000 years after the violent eruption of Mount Vesuvius scorched and buried them, thanks